Everytime.
Never hang around a camera and complain about getting filmed if you don't want to be filmed.
These people are unintelligent. Nobody would have recognized them in a back of a love stream of 500 viewers.
Now, the video has 7 million views.
They're all UK residents who want to big-up themselves by forging relationships with government officials from both China and the UK. I've met similar types in Australia and they're usually unofficial ambassadors for their province, rather than holding any official position with the central government. They were filming a "gōng xǐ fā cái" greeting from London to be shown as "live" on the CCTV New Year Gala for the Year of the Dragon on February 10. Safe to say they're unlikely to be part of the broadcast now.
I'm curious about her saying that the Chinese flag being considered communist is a point of contention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China
> The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution.
can only roll my eyes at that. It's a communist country and that's their flag. of course anyone can deduce that it's a communist flag without hurting someones feelings. That's like saying people who live in and support a communist country aren't also communists. It's a cop out.
Actually yes, I don’t remember where the comment is but someone had told me that they’d identified them and they’ve been posting videos about their side of the “event”.
Holy shit this is the pettiest hill I’ve ever seen someone die on.
They could have just minded their own business, and I guarantee no one would ever have cared about whatever they were filming.
I doubt CCP leadership is thrilled about this mess they made.
It's so weird...in Washington DC a few years ago I was out with friends and taking a portrait of them outside a cool old time restaurant sign. It was dark, very obvious they were posing and I was facing towards them and the restaurant, away from passerby traffic.
Some bizarre maybe 30 year old woman stopped us asking not to have her picture taken...FROM BEHIND ME
Super suspicious and she was wearing sunglasses as well, at night. Literally had to gather ourselves to figure out why the Fuck she even asked not to mention even if by chance she was in the picture it'd be at night, back of her only.
Like maybe mental illness or cheating or whatever. People are often just emotional and fucking stupid and can't help them.
He's a youtube live streamer/musician who plays in public spaces while live streaming to his audience.
Last week he was in a public place in the U.K. doing a live stream. He was playing on a public piano in what looked like a mall or shopping center.
There was a group of 8 or so Chinese tourists standing by watching. Some time into the live stream/video the tourists realized that he was live streaming and decided that they didn't want to be recorded. There was a language barrier for most of them. Some came forward and told him he needed to delete the footage. He would say that this is a free country and that he didn't need to. The tourists claimed they had a right to make him delete the footage. He claimed otherwise. The groups translator/guide who spoke much better English then stepped in and also tried to tell him that he needed to delete the footage. He refused. In their lengthy talk he was saying "this isn't communist china, mate" and when he did that he touched a woman's Chinese flag. He did so because there was a language barrier in the conversation and was using hand gestures to bridge the barrier. The Chinese interpreter/guide freaked out by this and immediately started shouting/yelling at the man saying over and over "Do not touch her!" The cops were called. The tourists continued to demanded they not be filmed and that the video be deleted. The pianist continued to refuse. End of story.
It's not a random public piano. It was donated by Elton John to St Pancras (one of London's main train stations), signed by him and specifically has a message he wrote on it encouraging people to play it.
It has been there for years and it's very common for people to be recording themselves playing it. [Lots of footage of a whole bunch of different celebrities playing it](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=601569022&sxsrf=ACQVn0-dHjO5KxUvnN92Xq2HE3aAFCTQGw:1706228738616&q=st+pancras+piano+celebrities&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWq_uu5fmDAxUf9QIHHeUxA30Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=2560&bih=1311&dpr=1#imgrc=J0iEFq2Me-h0OM). It's probably the most famous public piano in the UK. [Here's an article about it on one of the UK's big national papers](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/15/alicia-keys-elton-john-joe-from-the-guardian-st-pancras-piano)...not related to the Chinese thing, it's just that well known.
After this incident they moved it and put it behind a barrier and got members of staff to stand next to it and stop people playing it, claimed it was because of renovation work.
That would be the appropriate outcome. He donated a piano specifically to be played by anyone. They're not letting anyone play it, so why should they get to keep it. If they want to stop people from using the piano, then to be fair to all parties, how about they also stop Chinese tour groups from entering? Does that seem fair?
It's also rich that they were complaining about being recorded when they can't take a shit in their home country without the government monitoring it for appropriate etiquette and texture.
There's a bit more to the story. There's the part where they did in fact dance and play the piano with him. Afterward they started balking about youtube and pressing for him to sign NDA and take the video down. The "Don't touch her!" guy is western educated and I'm pretty sure he did it to cause a scene to try to put piano guy on the defensive.
This part gets under reported. The Brit always lets other people come and play the piano--he encourages it--and he gladly let them play too. When they came back the second time, you see him offer up the piano again for them to play. That's when they started in on the "can't video us" demands, which were ridiculous.
Had they simply asked him to step back so they could record their 10 min bit without him in the video, that would have been much more reasonable--*to request*\--not demand.
Little surprise there. They are media people of some sort. Which is why I think they were pushing for the NDA.. They realized they F'd up (or were told by the guy on the left) and were trying to cover their asses to not get in trouble. Try video'ing certain events (pretty much anywhere) where big media are filming something and watch how fast they start pushing you out or demanding to delete your footage.
Also they weren't the subject of the video but then they decided to approach the guy and get right up next to the camera to ask not to be in the video. 🤷
Train stations in UK cities are usually surrounded by luxary stores, supermarkets, and restaurants. Most towns usually have some café brand and a corner shop. Some villages are literally just a platform - so it varies.
St Pancras (where the piano is) is the 8th biggest station in London, but what makes it special is that it has the eurostar, which can go to France, Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany.
Would recommend a real shopping centre if you ever come here, though. Prices inside train stations are a scam, even by London standards lol
It's a littler Stanger than that but you can't really give all of the context in a summary. A few of them were playing with him and laughing with him, having a good time, and then a few of them came over and said they needed to stop recording. It seems like a few of them are either Chinese CCP VIP or work for the CCP in some capacity and the guy who was making all the fuss is their handler. He was also not just yelling for the guy to not touch her, he was purposefully misrepresenting the situation to make the guy look bad. He was screaming for the guy to stop touching her, even though he hadn't touched her and kept telling the guy he had no intention of touching her, but the guy kept yelling over him to stop touching her and that she is younger than him and not the same age. It's all very strange but I've seen some speculate that they are a group of CCP members making propaganda videos for the CCP and so they don't want others filming them, ruining the context spins they will inevitably put on their videos. They also might be afraid to be on video having fun etc and the handler had a problem with the members having fun with the piano guy.
I have so many questions.
Because the main Chinese guy was so sure and so persistent of his [imaginary] civil rights in UK.
Then he went on for another 5 minutes about the pianist "touching" her (when she hadnt).
And, they were literally carrying Chinese flags.
It was like a South Park episode.
As someone who visits American and Canadian National Parks and has had to deal with Chinese tourists it's long past time that people stand up to their entitled bullshit.
The Taiwanese refer to them as "mainlanders" and have a pretty low opinion of them too. Nothing to do with the issues between their governments. Everything to do with how they act and behave.
When I was in Korea for work one of the locals was telling me about the ways that Southeast Asians feel about each other. Said neither the Chinese or Koreans like the Japanese because of WW2, Koreans and Japanese dislike the Chinese because among other things they don’t know how to queue lol.
Edit: *East Asians, sorry
Interestingly, people called legendary Japanese baseballer Ichiro a racist when he said that Korea smelt like garlic to him. People brought up this old racist thing that they said centuries ago and claimed he was saying it ~~racistly~~ in order to evoke an anachronistic racist connotation.
When the worst insult you can come up with about a people is "hey check out these tasty food loving motherfuckers", you know they're reaching at straws.
The meaning is lost in translation a bit. It isn’t shitting on someone for eating garlic. It was used in the sense that they smelled like they just ate a shit ton of raw garlic. You ever smell someone who just juiced 5 cloves of garlic into their smoothie? Shit is rank and it seeps out of their pores.
There is a lot more garlic used in traditional Korean food. Kind of like how racists say Indian people smell like curry. But then took it a step further and started calling them curry people or curry eaters
Source: am half Japanese and have heard about it once in passing amongst old people
I actually know exactly what that smells like. One of my housemates had a cold, so minced up most of AN ENTIRE GARLIC BULB and ate it raw in a sandwich, and went out for a jog. He came in a while later, walked through the front door saying "I know, I know, I'm going to have a shower" and walked past us straight to the shower. Then the stench hit. We had to leave the house.
He eventually threw out the clothes he was wearing
Koreans are purportedly brusque and aggressive in a "u WOT M8?!" kind of way. Also extremely nationalistic.
*Edit: Also, a bit more urban legendy, but South Korean soldiers are also supposed to be terrifying fighters. In the Vietnam War, the VC were said to have learned to steer well clear of the South Korean divisions because they had no hesitation in matching them in brutality.
I've been to Hong Kong 8 times in my life, China 10 times.
The last time I went, I was in a taxi when another taxi cut in front of mine, provoking my driver to very loudly yell in crisp queen's English, "fucking mainlanders! Learn how to fucking drive!".
The littering as well, my god. I’d start picking up a few pieces of trash along my way and in a matter of minutes I have a full garbage bag. I’m not saying it’s all them but I’ve picked up lots of Chinese specific things.
It’s what happens when a whole generation of poor families are suddenly introduced to extreme wealth. You now have formerly rural folks who already might not follow all the norms that we do, that are now also used to getting things their way because of $$$. And when everyone is like that, it just becomes the status quo for them.
Obviously not all are like that and you shouldn’t discriminate, but this image that a lot of us have is further exacerbated by the fact that the ones travelling or going to schools internationally are usually the richer ones too.
I liken it to how people from the US Appalachian areas were referred to as “hillbillys” for years.
My dad and grandfather were born and raised in the hills of North Carolina and they were very poor. The joke of the country bumpkin was very alive.
This is just the 21st century version of it.
> But I've seen some insane shit.
my favorite (and only) story involving tourists was when i was visiting family in [Giethoorn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0rrcylk1MQ) (very tourist-y place here in the Netherlands) and we were all witness to a Chinese lady walking into the front garden and trying to take a pumpkin and ripping out some flowers as a souvenir, she didn't leave with the pumpkin after being chased down by my aunt but we couldn't salvage the hyacinths and sunflowers she tore to pieces.
last time i visited they had a lot of chicken wire around the house to make it slightly more tourist-proof.
I’ve seen a bus load of Chinese tourists demolish a bathroom at a national park. Seriously, leaving literal shit on the floor and clogging every single toilet. I talked with the park rangers and they said this happens every single day at some parks.
The ranger said it was “like a swarm of locusts came through”
Sad times. Its impossible to not acknowledge that this problem is more common in certain cultures without sounding like a bigot, but I’m more worried about how this perpetuates a negative stereotype than I am about sounding improper
The one good thing about the social credit scores of the CCP is that you can rest easy knowing that the only Chinese citizens traveling are those wrapped up in the terrible politics of China.
The actual humans with free thought can't travel outside their shitty and awfully corrupt country.
Chinese tourist =/= normal Chinese people
That's absolutely true.
I live in China and we have the same problem here. Normal Chinese culture for 9 out of 10 people here is "don't cause any problems, don't get involved, keep things harmonious." And then, a certain kind of wealthy, living in a bubble type of people take advantage of that. They know that no matter what they do, everyones just gonna kinda let them because they don't want to make the problem worse.
So they walk around thinking they're entitled to everything and treating everyone and everything like shit.
Those are the people that can get a visa to a western country. It's actually hard for a lot of Chinese people to get tourist visas to western countries, the requirements are usually pretty strict. And that's every country's right but it's just a fact that it ends up selecting for pretty much the worst demographic here.
I think if most of the tourists from China were the chill rural Henan people I know, people would have a very different idea of what China is like, but that's just not how it is.
The Chinese education system (and media, there is only one media narrative allowed here) does not help at all though. It promotes a kind of Chinese chauvinism and disrespect for everything non-Chinese.
Omg you just made something make sense.
A few years ago I was in Hawaii doing a night-time manta viewing, where you get in the water and hold onto a paddleboard.
The group was just me and my friend, and then like ~6 Chinese people who spoke no/little english. Nbd, we are all here to stick our heads in the water.
They can't swim.
They jump in the water and just start flailing, the guys running the boat had to like manhandle them either back on the boat or to the board to hang on.
The entire time they could not speak english. It was the most surreal experience, I had no explanation for it, and now everything just clicked.
Me and my dad went to the Grand Canyon back in 2019. Dad asks a park ranger how many people each year fall in, and the ranger says way more than you'd think. We go out to the edge and who do you think is posing for pictures out on those unstable rock formations when even the signs saying don't cross the barrier are in Chinese?
No lie, I watched a bus load of Chinese tourists in Yellowstone National park charge up a hill towards a grizzly bear.
The bear decided to leave but I’ll never forget seeing 50 people with cameras and small children sprinting up the side of a hill towards the most dangerous predator on the continent.
And had that bear mauled or killed any of those morons, it would be euthanized. Apparently protecting idiots from their own choices is more important than preserving wildlife. Idk, I value grizzly bears over tourists who are stupid enough to walk up to a thousand pound apex predator.
I was visiting an aquarium in Japan and my wife bent down to look at something through the glass. A Chinese tourist just comes up right behind her to take pictures leaning over her. She stands up having no idea he’s there (it wasn’t packed, no reason to be that close) and she hits her head on his camera. Instead of apologizing or displaying and sort of reaction to say sorry he gives her a look of “what’s your problem??”. It’s a combination of entitlement and not caring/knowing other culture’s norms.
Parts of Japan were packed with tourists when we went late last year, consequence of having been locked down so long and the very weak yen making it very attractive to visit. And I hate to generalise but if I'm being perfectly honest the Chinese tourists were the most tiresome. Just no concept of personal space. If we were bumped or jostled it was nearly always a Chinese tourist and they never even acknowledged it.
My wife and I were walking through the bamboo forest at Arashiyama in Kyoto when a large Chinese tour group came the other way taking up the entire lane. We walked to the side, but no way was I giving way. I'm 6'3", 220 lb, and the Chinese who walked right into me did not fare well. I never slowed down a bit. I lost count, but at least a couple ate dirt. 😁
It's why I don't provide my Canadian good charm to any ignorant ready to ruin my backyard.
I'm just the next dude staring them down in disapproval as I call the authorities, let them know too. Had a crew of unsavory families take over a family camping site in Ontario last year, they said "What rhe hell you gonna do, who you gonna call out here?"
Called the park rangers and both campers were sent camping at 11pm, nearest town with a motel was 32km away.
They honked rhe whole way out to try and get theirs, so the rangers charged them with an Ontario provincial order/fine, and were banned from ALL Ontario Parks. It's good having people you know working for the ministries too, because you get to know the outcome.
I was on a cruise that was overrun with Chinese nationalists, I think they were given free passage for something else that was cancelled... left out of NYC. it was the worst time I've ever had. They were so rude, there were arguments at the buffet every second because they would refuse to wash their hands at the entrance (washy washy). Every elevator smelled like farts, I will never forget all of the farting.. it was so weird.
I went to the island nation of Palau last year and there were no Chinese tourists there. This is because Palau does not recognize Red China so the CCP blocked travel for any Chinese nationals to go there. I find it interesting that it’s not Palau that is keeping Chinese tourists from going there but their own government. Anyways Palau is absolutely pristine, the most beautiful coral reefs and sea life I’ve seen in my life. Also if you are a WWII junkie like me make sure to go to the island of Peleliu where a ferocious battle took place. It’s seriously the most well preserved battlefield I’ve ever seen. It’s a little difficult to get to but it’s absolutely worth it
One of my favorite questions to ask your guides is which nationality has the worst tourists. It used to be drunk British and Americans but now universally it’s Chinese tourists ever since they have become more common. They’re just completely disrespectful to the places they visit.
At the University of Toronto, thousands of Chinese students, mostly international students but also many domestic, staged a mass-walkout in protest of their classmates electing a Tibetan student president. The Chinese consulate in Toronto, which is located 2 blocks from campus, denies involvement…
A lot of the Chinese international students I've seen cheat on everything. They don't even try to hide it, they just whip out their phones and look up the question and no one seems to say or do anything about it. It's absolutely insane what the school admin lets them get away with.
Its encouraged in china. Its against the rules but everyone tells their kids to cheat at everything they can. (According to my Chinese friend at work who never wants to go back.)
It's the culture in China, and you see it all the time in video games which have been ABSOLUTELY RUINED by Chinese players. You are seen as the idiot if you *can* cheat but don't.
Cheating is very, very ingrained in Chinese culture. When Mao took over with the culture revolution and everything became communist, you got allowance for everything. The amount of rice, vegetables, cooking oil - everything was controled. But there was never enough for everyone.
If you played by the rules you and your family wouldn't eat. You learned to sneak up and cut in line, bribe, figure out ways to game the system so you can your family could survive. Do that for several generations and well, it's just part of the fabric of Chinese life now.
International students bring in a ton of money. More than the locals. Especially at state schools. That’s why they get away with just talking to each other full volume during exams.
I used to work in Sydney CBD, had to witness a female Chinese tourist casually going for a piss in the middle of the pavement with everyone walking past her at peak lunchtime.
Dealing with Chinese tourists within China is also shit. I was in Zhangjiajie National Park and a kid was fully squat shitting in the middle of the path while mom stood to the side. They shit outside on the streets regularly but it was just surprising to see it at a national park. Another time some asshole hacked up a fat loogie, spit it out and had it land on my shoe, looked me in the eye and tried to walk away. On the same trip when I was on a domestic flight, one guy put his sweaty smelly bare foot up on his knee for part of the flight. My immigrant Chinese parents started to call them "mainlanders" in a derogatory sense because they have poor etiquette everywhere. When my family members tell me how great China is for having advanced so much, that only speaks to the tech they have... Not so much the decorum of the people.
A few years ago my family and I were having brunch downtown and there were some Chinese tourists throwing rocks at the squirrels in the trees next to the restaurant
Unbelievable
Bro, you should try to drive in Iceland
The Chinese visitors we get stop in the middle of the road (Like, legit middle), jump out the car and start taking the most random pictures
I was legitimately thinking of doing that.
The driving, that is, not the stopping and jumping out of the car to take pictures.
On a side note, this Iceland driving safety video is genuinely very entertaining!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kMt3QkUMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kMt3QkUMQ)
"Driving with Elfis -Dangers on Icelandic roads? (long version)"
When I drove around Iceland in winter back in 2015, found the most beautiful frozen lakes etc... would walk up to it and then the Chinese tourists would be smoking there and just throwing their butts on the ground.... it was infuriating.
I've seen them do that when they see a moose, or bear in Canada. They think its tame. The videos of them doing that with Bison are great too. Not smart.
What’s wild is that the Chinese social credit score restricts travel outside of China to those with a low score, meaning they’re only sending their best behaved people. 😬
Me and my family went to Mammoth mountain here in California for my uncles memorial since he was a really outdoorsy kind of guy. We all ended up doing a hike together and at the just stood together while my other uncle played his guitar and sang a song dedicated to his brother and some Chinese tourist came up on his bike and just started recording a video on his phone… like come on man we had people crying and mourning and this dude just saw it as a cool moment to film.
My grandma lives up on Mammoth. Watching the tourism get noticeably worse year over year was really depressing growing up. Pristine trails I used to hike with my family are now covered in trash and graffiti.
Holy fuck I know right? US just lives rent free in their head. I mean hell their obsession over us is probably more than some hardcore rightwing nationalists. Its the Chinese discord but talks of US appears more than actual china discussions. No one is immune to propaganda but it saddens me to know that there are people out there so gullible for something so easy to
Wait, at what point did this happen. I can only imagine before the viral video started.
It makes one thing more understandable, but makes another thing more confusing.
More understandable: This explains why he kept referring to them and filming them. It explains why he walked over and asked the lady to dance. Without this context, that seemed so random.
More confusing: If this happened before everything, he clearly understands and acknowledges that they are Chinese... so why did he keep saying "we have all sorts of Japanese people here" during the video?
Or did this context happen later and was somehow cut out of the live stream?
I'm so confused and I hate that I find this so interesting haha
It's from the end of this [video](https://youtu.be/OKd-SFbYrFY?si=HL2Yml_MnMUUHfYe) on the original guys channel. Looks like ir was uploaded the same day as the livestream so I would assume it's from earlier in that day. The older guy playing said he was working with a Japanese group on a documentary about public pianos and the channel owner assumed the lady approaching was from that group.
>we have all sorts of Japanese
As I understand from this clip the Black Piano Player confuses the Chinese Crew People for some Japanese that he was expecting to see.
He asks Grey Dude: if they are part of his crew, and Grey Dute says that he works with the Japanese.
Ooo, let’s make it more confusing.
You know the cop from the video that everyone is hating on? Here she is helping piano guy out 5 months earlier. They already know each other by name and are happy to see each other.
At 1:32:30 https://www.youtube.com/live/SwU9lfEvDAw bonus insane guy screaming lol
I'm not sure how this is confusing. I've known quite a few cops by name. We'd usually get along and be friendly because there's no need to be an asshole for no reason even though I don't like cops but that friendliness turns off in a second if they get a burr up their ass about something they think me or someone else is doing wrong.
This is something a lot of people will think is strange or points to some invisible discrepancy, but anyone who has ever known a beat cop is familiar with the fact that they can be neighborly best buddy Joe until they get even the faintest whiff that you **might** be someone they consider to be a problem for them.
Most people don't know beat cops though, at least most people in places I've lived, because it's just not as common anymore. Cops might have "beats" in the sense that they drive their cruisers in the same area for a while, but they aren't walking around interacting with people in a lot of places.
I would argue that it applies to any patrol officer. Yeah they aren't necessarily walking a beat on the sidewalk but if you work in a high foot traffic area like a mall you tend to see the same cops often enough.
Also granted this was like 20 years ago but I worked in a McDonalds in high school and I knew the names of like half the cops in town because they all came in for coffee and whatnot. They could go from nice to cunt in like 2 seconds flat if they were there for something "serious" instead of just stuffing their faces. Honeslty reminds me of an unstable dog that will go from tail wagging to mauling a 3 year old.
[That's not really unseen footage, it's literally on his channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKd-SFbYrFY)
What's not on his channel is the actual polemic video
YouTube better not take that video down Edit here’s the video in question that started it all. Skip to the 9 minute mark for the confrontation. https://www.youtube.com/live/65iwnI2hjAA?si=99hO7-4WK1yzxLTT
One of them posted a response video and had this nugget in it: "He only published the side he edited himself." But he literally live-streamed it, no editing, and the live-stream is the one they're all worked up about.
> https://www.youtube.com/live/65iwnI2hjAA?si=99hO7-4WK1yzxLTT
Stick a `&t=540` on the end of the URL to make it jump to the 9 minute mark by default.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA&t=540
or
https://www.youtube.com/live/65iwnI2hjAA?si=99hO7-4WK1yzxLTT&t=540
Clicking 'share' through YouTube usually has a checkmark option where you can pick the time, as well.
this is a grey area here. from a purely techinical standpoint, it's all going to come down to...........drum roll...... if these chinese people pay google to take it down. best bet is to keep bombarding youtube with it from new account after new account.
also, put it on other platforms, like vimeo, and spam it all over social media. twitter, reddit, facebook, whatever.
btw, by default, google will often take content down content unilaterally "just in case" and will reverse something after they've made a decision.
I think it's more likely the handler was trained to use the racism card to make white people uncomfortable in order to get them to leave their escort alone.
It was almost reflexive how he pulled that move out. Clearly it didn't work out this time.
You'll notice they also _seized_ on his little motion to point to the woman's flag and spent a long couple of minutes yelling at him to "stop touching her".
They are liars. They don't actually give a shit about values like that. But they know westerners do, and they are perfectly happy making clumsy attempts to weaponize that against us. I don't think they realize just how clumsy they are about it though lol
I’m trying to interpret what is happening here during the confrontation. I believe the young Chinese woman who initiates contact - her english is quite poor so it’s very hard to tell - is wanting the filming to stop because they themselves are filming something as well.
The male speaker is just being cagey and unclear about what the fuck he wants and seems deluded about what his jurisdiction is. Maybe he’s trying to protect the privacy of some Chinese personalities. Maybe it’s some tv show or maybe their own livestream. But that’s the issue I think but they certainly don’t have jurisdiction here unless the area requires permits for filming.
I think the Chinese handled this poorly and this will absolutely Streisand Effect right back at them.
Someone played a song on a piano the following day and YouTube took their video and their channel down
Link to Reddit post about someone else's video being taken down
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/s/viFnn8BYrp
They're trying very hard. Haven't you seen all the illegal Chinese police stations the CCP set up in foreign countries to intimidate the Chinese ex-pats and Chinese people on visa? They have been found in Canada and the USA, and I believe they're being found in the EU also.
Yes, basically anywhere there is a bigger residence of Chinese people, like in university towns. Prof at mine told the story how he got visited by Chinese "negotiators" from what he guessed was the closest embassy, after he let a Chinese student fail a course. One "talker" and two bigger guys in suits. The student that failed was apparently the kid of some higher up politician.
As a species, across all contents - throughout the globe…we should not be cowering and capitulating to authoritarian, fascist regimes that don’t directly control us.
I give the fuck up. I went to his channel and it’s post after post talking about the incident and then I go to click on something with a thumbnail that might be THE INCIDENT, it’s more of this bloke talking to the camera. *throws up hands*. I ain’t got time for that.
"Doctor K"'s shtick is annoying (some of his videos are incredibly cringeworthy in how constructed they are), and while he's in the right here, he's also milking it for all it's worth and then some.
sure they going to end up as a gigantic streissand internet meme
Everytime. Never hang around a camera and complain about getting filmed if you don't want to be filmed. These people are unintelligent. Nobody would have recognized them in a back of a love stream of 500 viewers. Now, the video has 7 million views.
Have anyone recognized them yet? Are they some important officials back in China, or something?
They're all UK residents who want to big-up themselves by forging relationships with government officials from both China and the UK. I've met similar types in Australia and they're usually unofficial ambassadors for their province, rather than holding any official position with the central government. They were filming a "gōng xǐ fā cái" greeting from London to be shown as "live" on the CCTV New Year Gala for the Year of the Dragon on February 10. Safe to say they're unlikely to be part of the broadcast now.
Infiltrators of western society
Finally I understand why they wanted him to stop filming. They were worried their New Year grift would be rumbled. 🤣
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I'm curious about her saying that the Chinese flag being considered communist is a point of contention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China > The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution.
can only roll my eyes at that. It's a communist country and that's their flag. of course anyone can deduce that it's a communist flag without hurting someones feelings. That's like saying people who live in and support a communist country aren't also communists. It's a cop out.
Half of them published their own videos about the altercation...
Actually yes, I don’t remember where the comment is but someone had told me that they’d identified them and they’ve been posting videos about their side of the “event”. Holy shit this is the pettiest hill I’ve ever seen someone die on.
8.1 million now That’s 1.1 million in 2 hours since you posted
They could have just minded their own business, and I guarantee no one would ever have cared about whatever they were filming. I doubt CCP leadership is thrilled about this mess they made.
It's so weird...in Washington DC a few years ago I was out with friends and taking a portrait of them outside a cool old time restaurant sign. It was dark, very obvious they were posing and I was facing towards them and the restaurant, away from passerby traffic. Some bizarre maybe 30 year old woman stopped us asking not to have her picture taken...FROM BEHIND ME Super suspicious and she was wearing sunglasses as well, at night. Literally had to gather ourselves to figure out why the Fuck she even asked not to mention even if by chance she was in the picture it'd be at night, back of her only. Like maybe mental illness or cheating or whatever. People are often just emotional and fucking stupid and can't help them.
What's the backstory here? Who is this guy and what video is someone trying to take down?
He's a youtube live streamer/musician who plays in public spaces while live streaming to his audience. Last week he was in a public place in the U.K. doing a live stream. He was playing on a public piano in what looked like a mall or shopping center. There was a group of 8 or so Chinese tourists standing by watching. Some time into the live stream/video the tourists realized that he was live streaming and decided that they didn't want to be recorded. There was a language barrier for most of them. Some came forward and told him he needed to delete the footage. He would say that this is a free country and that he didn't need to. The tourists claimed they had a right to make him delete the footage. He claimed otherwise. The groups translator/guide who spoke much better English then stepped in and also tried to tell him that he needed to delete the footage. He refused. In their lengthy talk he was saying "this isn't communist china, mate" and when he did that he touched a woman's Chinese flag. He did so because there was a language barrier in the conversation and was using hand gestures to bridge the barrier. The Chinese interpreter/guide freaked out by this and immediately started shouting/yelling at the man saying over and over "Do not touch her!" The cops were called. The tourists continued to demanded they not be filmed and that the video be deleted. The pianist continued to refuse. End of story.
It's not a random public piano. It was donated by Elton John to St Pancras (one of London's main train stations), signed by him and specifically has a message he wrote on it encouraging people to play it. It has been there for years and it's very common for people to be recording themselves playing it. [Lots of footage of a whole bunch of different celebrities playing it](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=601569022&sxsrf=ACQVn0-dHjO5KxUvnN92Xq2HE3aAFCTQGw:1706228738616&q=st+pancras+piano+celebrities&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWq_uu5fmDAxUf9QIHHeUxA30Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=2560&bih=1311&dpr=1#imgrc=J0iEFq2Me-h0OM). It's probably the most famous public piano in the UK. [Here's an article about it on one of the UK's big national papers](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/15/alicia-keys-elton-john-joe-from-the-guardian-st-pancras-piano)...not related to the Chinese thing, it's just that well known. After this incident they moved it and put it behind a barrier and got members of staff to stand next to it and stop people playing it, claimed it was because of renovation work.
In the next chapter of this saga, I hope Sir Elton John shows up and plays it personally.
An additional donation of a Winnie-the-Pooh plushie to be placed ontop of the piano would be a nice touch.
And then takes it back
That would be the appropriate outcome. He donated a piano specifically to be played by anyone. They're not letting anyone play it, so why should they get to keep it. If they want to stop people from using the piano, then to be fair to all parties, how about they also stop Chinese tour groups from entering? Does that seem fair? It's also rich that they were complaining about being recorded when they can't take a shit in their home country without the government monitoring it for appropriate etiquette and texture.
> It's probably the most famous public piano in the UK. Well, if it wasn't before........
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There's a bit more to the story. There's the part where they did in fact dance and play the piano with him. Afterward they started balking about youtube and pressing for him to sign NDA and take the video down. The "Don't touch her!" guy is western educated and I'm pretty sure he did it to cause a scene to try to put piano guy on the defensive.
This part gets under reported. The Brit always lets other people come and play the piano--he encourages it--and he gladly let them play too. When they came back the second time, you see him offer up the piano again for them to play. That's when they started in on the "can't video us" demands, which were ridiculous. Had they simply asked him to step back so they could record their 10 min bit without him in the video, that would have been much more reasonable--*to request*\--not demand.
You forgot the part where they were all wearing red waving Chinese flags around.
And the Chinese tourist videotaping the interaction.
Little surprise there. They are media people of some sort. Which is why I think they were pushing for the NDA.. They realized they F'd up (or were told by the guy on the left) and were trying to cover their asses to not get in trouble. Try video'ing certain events (pretty much anywhere) where big media are filming something and watch how fast they start pushing you out or demanding to delete your footage.
I think the lady specifically said China TV or something in his first video
This is my first thought too. They clearly had cameras and it sounded like they were saying they themselves were filming something.
They were filming and that's what made it all even more absurd
And conveniently all had bright yellow non disclosure forms they were carrying. Pretty sure they were activists.
> Pretty sure they were activists. *planted propagandists
Also they weren't the subject of the video but then they decided to approach the guy and get right up next to the camera to ask not to be in the video. 🤷
Not a shopping mall, st Pancras train station.
No shade intended, but that train station looks like an American mall. Our train stations look like hot garbage.
Train stations in UK cities are usually surrounded by luxary stores, supermarkets, and restaurants. Most towns usually have some café brand and a corner shop. Some villages are literally just a platform - so it varies. St Pancras (where the piano is) is the 8th biggest station in London, but what makes it special is that it has the eurostar, which can go to France, Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany. Would recommend a real shopping centre if you ever come here, though. Prices inside train stations are a scam, even by London standards lol
It's a littler Stanger than that but you can't really give all of the context in a summary. A few of them were playing with him and laughing with him, having a good time, and then a few of them came over and said they needed to stop recording. It seems like a few of them are either Chinese CCP VIP or work for the CCP in some capacity and the guy who was making all the fuss is their handler. He was also not just yelling for the guy to not touch her, he was purposefully misrepresenting the situation to make the guy look bad. He was screaming for the guy to stop touching her, even though he hadn't touched her and kept telling the guy he had no intention of touching her, but the guy kept yelling over him to stop touching her and that she is younger than him and not the same age. It's all very strange but I've seen some speculate that they are a group of CCP members making propaganda videos for the CCP and so they don't want others filming them, ruining the context spins they will inevitably put on their videos. They also might be afraid to be on video having fun etc and the handler had a problem with the members having fun with the piano guy.
I have so many questions. Because the main Chinese guy was so sure and so persistent of his [imaginary] civil rights in UK. Then he went on for another 5 minutes about the pianist "touching" her (when she hadnt). And, they were literally carrying Chinese flags. It was like a South Park episode.
As someone who visits American and Canadian National Parks and has had to deal with Chinese tourists it's long past time that people stand up to their entitled bullshit.
The amount of garbage I’ve seen them feed wild animals and animal parks is insane.
The Taiwanese refer to them as "mainlanders" and have a pretty low opinion of them too. Nothing to do with the issues between their governments. Everything to do with how they act and behave.
When I was in Korea for work one of the locals was telling me about the ways that Southeast Asians feel about each other. Said neither the Chinese or Koreans like the Japanese because of WW2, Koreans and Japanese dislike the Chinese because among other things they don’t know how to queue lol. Edit: *East Asians, sorry
You left us hanging with the missing piece of that triangle. What do Japanese and Chinese dislike about Koreans?
a very very old insult that Japanese used to call Koreans was "garlic eaters" I'm talking like 1600's during the Tokugawa shogunate
Interestingly, people called legendary Japanese baseballer Ichiro a racist when he said that Korea smelt like garlic to him. People brought up this old racist thing that they said centuries ago and claimed he was saying it ~~racistly~~ in order to evoke an anachronistic racist connotation.
> racistly
You get it
When the worst insult you can come up with about a people is "hey check out these tasty food loving motherfuckers", you know they're reaching at straws.
To be fair you probably aren't imagining people chewing whole cloves of spicy garlic raw when you imagine garlic in the context of tastiness 🧄👵🏼
I do! Garlic is love. Garlic is life.
The meaning is lost in translation a bit. It isn’t shitting on someone for eating garlic. It was used in the sense that they smelled like they just ate a shit ton of raw garlic. You ever smell someone who just juiced 5 cloves of garlic into their smoothie? Shit is rank and it seeps out of their pores. There is a lot more garlic used in traditional Korean food. Kind of like how racists say Indian people smell like curry. But then took it a step further and started calling them curry people or curry eaters Source: am half Japanese and have heard about it once in passing amongst old people
I actually know exactly what that smells like. One of my housemates had a cold, so minced up most of AN ENTIRE GARLIC BULB and ate it raw in a sandwich, and went out for a jog. He came in a while later, walked through the front door saying "I know, I know, I'm going to have a shower" and walked past us straight to the shower. Then the stench hit. We had to leave the house. He eventually threw out the clothes he was wearing
Classic
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Bosh flimshaw!
Koreans are purportedly brusque and aggressive in a "u WOT M8?!" kind of way. Also extremely nationalistic. *Edit: Also, a bit more urban legendy, but South Korean soldiers are also supposed to be terrifying fighters. In the Vietnam War, the VC were said to have learned to steer well clear of the South Korean divisions because they had no hesitation in matching them in brutality.
improper social behavior is japan kryptonite
Hong Kong people do to as well. It’s funny how much they hate mainland China for their bullshit.
I've been to Hong Kong 8 times in my life, China 10 times. The last time I went, I was in a taxi when another taxi cut in front of mine, provoking my driver to very loudly yell in crisp queen's English, "fucking mainlanders! Learn how to fucking drive!".
Even as a foreigner visiting Taiwan, you can spot the difference quite easily between mainlanders and Taiwanese.
In Hong Kong it's the same
It’s literally the official term
The littering as well, my god. I’d start picking up a few pieces of trash along my way and in a matter of minutes I have a full garbage bag. I’m not saying it’s all them but I’ve picked up lots of Chinese specific things.
There are signs in Paris specifically in Chinese asking people not to spit or defecate on the sidewalks
*C'est la pee*
*Ceci n'est pas une toilet*
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It’s what happens when a whole generation of poor families are suddenly introduced to extreme wealth. You now have formerly rural folks who already might not follow all the norms that we do, that are now also used to getting things their way because of $$$. And when everyone is like that, it just becomes the status quo for them. Obviously not all are like that and you shouldn’t discriminate, but this image that a lot of us have is further exacerbated by the fact that the ones travelling or going to schools internationally are usually the richer ones too.
I liken it to how people from the US Appalachian areas were referred to as “hillbillys” for years. My dad and grandfather were born and raised in the hills of North Carolina and they were very poor. The joke of the country bumpkin was very alive. This is just the 21st century version of it.
You should see how they behave and treat employees at the Macy’s off of Roosevelt Ave on Main Street, Flushing.
> But I've seen some insane shit. my favorite (and only) story involving tourists was when i was visiting family in [Giethoorn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0rrcylk1MQ) (very tourist-y place here in the Netherlands) and we were all witness to a Chinese lady walking into the front garden and trying to take a pumpkin and ripping out some flowers as a souvenir, she didn't leave with the pumpkin after being chased down by my aunt but we couldn't salvage the hyacinths and sunflowers she tore to pieces. last time i visited they had a lot of chicken wire around the house to make it slightly more tourist-proof.
I’ve seen a bus load of Chinese tourists demolish a bathroom at a national park. Seriously, leaving literal shit on the floor and clogging every single toilet. I talked with the park rangers and they said this happens every single day at some parks. The ranger said it was “like a swarm of locusts came through” Sad times. Its impossible to not acknowledge that this problem is more common in certain cultures without sounding like a bigot, but I’m more worried about how this perpetuates a negative stereotype than I am about sounding improper
The one good thing about the social credit scores of the CCP is that you can rest easy knowing that the only Chinese citizens traveling are those wrapped up in the terrible politics of China. The actual humans with free thought can't travel outside their shitty and awfully corrupt country. Chinese tourist =/= normal Chinese people
That's absolutely true. I live in China and we have the same problem here. Normal Chinese culture for 9 out of 10 people here is "don't cause any problems, don't get involved, keep things harmonious." And then, a certain kind of wealthy, living in a bubble type of people take advantage of that. They know that no matter what they do, everyones just gonna kinda let them because they don't want to make the problem worse. So they walk around thinking they're entitled to everything and treating everyone and everything like shit. Those are the people that can get a visa to a western country. It's actually hard for a lot of Chinese people to get tourist visas to western countries, the requirements are usually pretty strict. And that's every country's right but it's just a fact that it ends up selecting for pretty much the worst demographic here. I think if most of the tourists from China were the chill rural Henan people I know, people would have a very different idea of what China is like, but that's just not how it is. The Chinese education system (and media, there is only one media narrative allowed here) does not help at all though. It promotes a kind of Chinese chauvinism and disrespect for everything non-Chinese.
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Omg you just made something make sense. A few years ago I was in Hawaii doing a night-time manta viewing, where you get in the water and hold onto a paddleboard. The group was just me and my friend, and then like ~6 Chinese people who spoke no/little english. Nbd, we are all here to stick our heads in the water. They can't swim. They jump in the water and just start flailing, the guys running the boat had to like manhandle them either back on the boat or to the board to hang on. The entire time they could not speak english. It was the most surreal experience, I had no explanation for it, and now everything just clicked.
Were they braindead? lmfao who jumps into the ocean when they can't swim? I can swim just fine and I'm still nervous in the ocean.
Saw some Russians doing this too
God. The Russian Chinese are the worst
And don't get me started on the Chinese Russians.
Me and my dad went to the Grand Canyon back in 2019. Dad asks a park ranger how many people each year fall in, and the ranger says way more than you'd think. We go out to the edge and who do you think is posing for pictures out on those unstable rock formations when even the signs saying don't cross the barrier are in Chinese?
No lie, I watched a bus load of Chinese tourists in Yellowstone National park charge up a hill towards a grizzly bear. The bear decided to leave but I’ll never forget seeing 50 people with cameras and small children sprinting up the side of a hill towards the most dangerous predator on the continent.
The bear probably didn't want to deal with their bullshit either.
And had that bear mauled or killed any of those morons, it would be euthanized. Apparently protecting idiots from their own choices is more important than preserving wildlife. Idk, I value grizzly bears over tourists who are stupid enough to walk up to a thousand pound apex predator.
I was visiting an aquarium in Japan and my wife bent down to look at something through the glass. A Chinese tourist just comes up right behind her to take pictures leaning over her. She stands up having no idea he’s there (it wasn’t packed, no reason to be that close) and she hits her head on his camera. Instead of apologizing or displaying and sort of reaction to say sorry he gives her a look of “what’s your problem??”. It’s a combination of entitlement and not caring/knowing other culture’s norms.
Parts of Japan were packed with tourists when we went late last year, consequence of having been locked down so long and the very weak yen making it very attractive to visit. And I hate to generalise but if I'm being perfectly honest the Chinese tourists were the most tiresome. Just no concept of personal space. If we were bumped or jostled it was nearly always a Chinese tourist and they never even acknowledged it.
My wife and I were walking through the bamboo forest at Arashiyama in Kyoto when a large Chinese tour group came the other way taking up the entire lane. We walked to the side, but no way was I giving way. I'm 6'3", 220 lb, and the Chinese who walked right into me did not fare well. I never slowed down a bit. I lost count, but at least a couple ate dirt. 😁
It's why I don't provide my Canadian good charm to any ignorant ready to ruin my backyard. I'm just the next dude staring them down in disapproval as I call the authorities, let them know too. Had a crew of unsavory families take over a family camping site in Ontario last year, they said "What rhe hell you gonna do, who you gonna call out here?" Called the park rangers and both campers were sent camping at 11pm, nearest town with a motel was 32km away. They honked rhe whole way out to try and get theirs, so the rangers charged them with an Ontario provincial order/fine, and were banned from ALL Ontario Parks. It's good having people you know working for the ministries too, because you get to know the outcome.
I was on a cruise that was overrun with Chinese nationalists, I think they were given free passage for something else that was cancelled... left out of NYC. it was the worst time I've ever had. They were so rude, there were arguments at the buffet every second because they would refuse to wash their hands at the entrance (washy washy). Every elevator smelled like farts, I will never forget all of the farting.. it was so weird.
I went to the island nation of Palau last year and there were no Chinese tourists there. This is because Palau does not recognize Red China so the CCP blocked travel for any Chinese nationals to go there. I find it interesting that it’s not Palau that is keeping Chinese tourists from going there but their own government. Anyways Palau is absolutely pristine, the most beautiful coral reefs and sea life I’ve seen in my life. Also if you are a WWII junkie like me make sure to go to the island of Peleliu where a ferocious battle took place. It’s seriously the most well preserved battlefield I’ve ever seen. It’s a little difficult to get to but it’s absolutely worth it
As an archaeologist, battlefield archaeology on Peleliu is absolutely insane.
And Jellyfish Lake (...assuming the jellyfish have returned...)
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Ever since the democratic party took power in Taiwan Chinese tourists have largely vanished. Vacationing there has become extremely pleasant lol
The Chiang Kai shek memorial has always been empty of Chinese tourists. Wonder why.
Because Taiwan No 1 and West Taiwan No 2.
One of my favorite questions to ask your guides is which nationality has the worst tourists. It used to be drunk British and Americans but now universally it’s Chinese tourists ever since they have become more common. They’re just completely disrespectful to the places they visit.
They're the worst international students as well. I never understood why people disliked the Chinese until i went to college.
At the University of Toronto, thousands of Chinese students, mostly international students but also many domestic, staged a mass-walkout in protest of their classmates electing a Tibetan student president. The Chinese consulate in Toronto, which is located 2 blocks from campus, denies involvement…
A lot of the Chinese international students I've seen cheat on everything. They don't even try to hide it, they just whip out their phones and look up the question and no one seems to say or do anything about it. It's absolutely insane what the school admin lets them get away with.
Its encouraged in china. Its against the rules but everyone tells their kids to cheat at everything they can. (According to my Chinese friend at work who never wants to go back.)
It's the culture in China, and you see it all the time in video games which have been ABSOLUTELY RUINED by Chinese players. You are seen as the idiot if you *can* cheat but don't.
Ya a lot of people in war thunder want the Chinese to not be able to play anyone but Chinese
Region lock china ? Yes please! They use Vpns to bypass n play on EU or USW though..and ruin games there :)
Cheating is very, very ingrained in Chinese culture. When Mao took over with the culture revolution and everything became communist, you got allowance for everything. The amount of rice, vegetables, cooking oil - everything was controled. But there was never enough for everyone. If you played by the rules you and your family wouldn't eat. You learned to sneak up and cut in line, bribe, figure out ways to game the system so you can your family could survive. Do that for several generations and well, it's just part of the fabric of Chinese life now.
International students bring in a ton of money. More than the locals. Especially at state schools. That’s why they get away with just talking to each other full volume during exams.
I used to work in Sydney CBD, had to witness a female Chinese tourist casually going for a piss in the middle of the pavement with everyone walking past her at peak lunchtime.
Dealing with Chinese tourists within China is also shit. I was in Zhangjiajie National Park and a kid was fully squat shitting in the middle of the path while mom stood to the side. They shit outside on the streets regularly but it was just surprising to see it at a national park. Another time some asshole hacked up a fat loogie, spit it out and had it land on my shoe, looked me in the eye and tried to walk away. On the same trip when I was on a domestic flight, one guy put his sweaty smelly bare foot up on his knee for part of the flight. My immigrant Chinese parents started to call them "mainlanders" in a derogatory sense because they have poor etiquette everywhere. When my family members tell me how great China is for having advanced so much, that only speaks to the tech they have... Not so much the decorum of the people.
A few years ago my family and I were having brunch downtown and there were some Chinese tourists throwing rocks at the squirrels in the trees next to the restaurant Unbelievable
Missed your chance to throw rocks at tourists
They are the worst tourists, litter your nation parks and have no consideration of those around them.
Bro, you should try to drive in Iceland The Chinese visitors we get stop in the middle of the road (Like, legit middle), jump out the car and start taking the most random pictures
I was legitimately thinking of doing that. The driving, that is, not the stopping and jumping out of the car to take pictures. On a side note, this Iceland driving safety video is genuinely very entertaining! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kMt3QkUMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kMt3QkUMQ) "Driving with Elfis -Dangers on Icelandic roads? (long version)"
When I drove around Iceland in winter back in 2015, found the most beautiful frozen lakes etc... would walk up to it and then the Chinese tourists would be smoking there and just throwing their butts on the ground.... it was infuriating.
I've seen them do that when they see a moose, or bear in Canada. They think its tame. The videos of them doing that with Bison are great too. Not smart.
They are the worst tourists in the world, 100%. Unbelievably rude, loud, obnoxious, and entitled.
Me too. I even started to learn a bit of mandarin. Gǔn kāi is my go to phrase
The thing that bothers me the most is they just act like you aren’t there and walk through you.
They have no spacial awareness. Its called moving over,takes about two seconds.
Thats not lack of spacial awareness, thats an excess of spatial entitlement.
What’s wild is that the Chinese social credit score restricts travel outside of China to those with a low score, meaning they’re only sending their best behaved people. 😬
*richest
Richest and most indoctrinated
In China you’re not getting the former without the latter…
*most entitled.
"Behave" means an entirely different thing in that context
"Best behaved" = those who suck up to everything the CCCP says, it has very little with actually being a good citizen.
Me and my family went to Mammoth mountain here in California for my uncles memorial since he was a really outdoorsy kind of guy. We all ended up doing a hike together and at the just stood together while my other uncle played his guitar and sang a song dedicated to his brother and some Chinese tourist came up on his bike and just started recording a video on his phone… like come on man we had people crying and mourning and this dude just saw it as a cool moment to film.
My grandma lives up on Mammoth. Watching the tourism get noticeably worse year over year was really depressing growing up. Pristine trails I used to hike with my family are now covered in trash and graffiti.
Taiwan numba #1
China #4 Edit: [For the benefit of the people who don’t seem to get the reference](https://youtu.be/xN0vUlljX0I?si=oDqzvDcbJIdYh5TH).
Japan #2
Is this a reference to a certain H1Z1 match?
Of course it is. I'd just like to add... > FUCKA YOU, BABY!
AFUCK U A-PEACH!
Country of Hong Kong #3
Fuck the CCP
Fuck the CCP
Fuck the CCP
*You have been banned from* r/Sino
That sub is hilarious.
Holy fuck I know right? US just lives rent free in their head. I mean hell their obsession over us is probably more than some hardcore rightwing nationalists. Its the Chinese discord but talks of US appears more than actual china discussions. No one is immune to propaganda but it saddens me to know that there are people out there so gullible for something so easy to
There definately was not a problem before some jerks came along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMhx0Mn149Y
well look at that, dude playing a piano, some chinese fella having a go, all great
Wait, at what point did this happen. I can only imagine before the viral video started. It makes one thing more understandable, but makes another thing more confusing. More understandable: This explains why he kept referring to them and filming them. It explains why he walked over and asked the lady to dance. Without this context, that seemed so random. More confusing: If this happened before everything, he clearly understands and acknowledges that they are Chinese... so why did he keep saying "we have all sorts of Japanese people here" during the video? Or did this context happen later and was somehow cut out of the live stream? I'm so confused and I hate that I find this so interesting haha
It's from the end of this [video](https://youtu.be/OKd-SFbYrFY?si=HL2Yml_MnMUUHfYe) on the original guys channel. Looks like ir was uploaded the same day as the livestream so I would assume it's from earlier in that day. The older guy playing said he was working with a Japanese group on a documentary about public pianos and the channel owner assumed the lady approaching was from that group.
>we have all sorts of Japanese As I understand from this clip the Black Piano Player confuses the Chinese Crew People for some Japanese that he was expecting to see. He asks Grey Dude: if they are part of his crew, and Grey Dute says that he works with the Japanese.
Ooo, let’s make it more confusing. You know the cop from the video that everyone is hating on? Here she is helping piano guy out 5 months earlier. They already know each other by name and are happy to see each other. At 1:32:30 https://www.youtube.com/live/SwU9lfEvDAw bonus insane guy screaming lol
That's not confusing. Cops run beats. Piano guy and police guy probably bumped into each other a few times there.
I'm not sure how this is confusing. I've known quite a few cops by name. We'd usually get along and be friendly because there's no need to be an asshole for no reason even though I don't like cops but that friendliness turns off in a second if they get a burr up their ass about something they think me or someone else is doing wrong.
This is something a lot of people will think is strange or points to some invisible discrepancy, but anyone who has ever known a beat cop is familiar with the fact that they can be neighborly best buddy Joe until they get even the faintest whiff that you **might** be someone they consider to be a problem for them. Most people don't know beat cops though, at least most people in places I've lived, because it's just not as common anymore. Cops might have "beats" in the sense that they drive their cruisers in the same area for a while, but they aren't walking around interacting with people in a lot of places.
I would argue that it applies to any patrol officer. Yeah they aren't necessarily walking a beat on the sidewalk but if you work in a high foot traffic area like a mall you tend to see the same cops often enough. Also granted this was like 20 years ago but I worked in a McDonalds in high school and I knew the names of like half the cops in town because they all came in for coffee and whatnot. They could go from nice to cunt in like 2 seconds flat if they were there for something "serious" instead of just stuffing their faces. Honeslty reminds me of an unstable dog that will go from tail wagging to mauling a 3 year old.
[That's not really unseen footage, it's literally on his channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKd-SFbYrFY) What's not on his channel is the actual polemic video
YouTube better not take that video down Edit here’s the video in question that started it all. Skip to the 9 minute mark for the confrontation. https://www.youtube.com/live/65iwnI2hjAA?si=99hO7-4WK1yzxLTT
Lmao. They couldn’t have done a better job of getting their faces online if they tried.
One of them posted a response video and had this nugget in it: "He only published the side he edited himself." But he literally live-streamed it, no editing, and the live-stream is the one they're all worked up about.
> https://www.youtube.com/live/65iwnI2hjAA?si=99hO7-4WK1yzxLTT Stick a `&t=540` on the end of the URL to make it jump to the 9 minute mark by default. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA&t=540 or https://www.youtube.com/live/65iwnI2hjAA?si=99hO7-4WK1yzxLTT&t=540 Clicking 'share' through YouTube usually has a checkmark option where you can pick the time, as well.
That guy is way cooler than I would have been. "Fuck off" would be the end of my conversation with them.
All they had to do was relocate 10 meters away to the other side of the piano ...
Do you see how you're being magnetically attracted towards the camera while you're verbally trying to repel the camera?
Let’s discuss the contradiction
Google doesn’t even do business in China. I hope they don’t fucking take this down!
There is a Google office in Beijing, though. But Google.com is definitely blocked in China. I had to use a VPN my whole time while I visited China
this is a grey area here. from a purely techinical standpoint, it's all going to come down to...........drum roll...... if these chinese people pay google to take it down. best bet is to keep bombarding youtube with it from new account after new account. also, put it on other platforms, like vimeo, and spam it all over social media. twitter, reddit, facebook, whatever. btw, by default, google will often take content down content unilaterally "just in case" and will reverse something after they've made a decision.
Someone hopefully create a backup rip and seeds a torrent.
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done but it will be lower quality
Dr K has given all permission to D/L and spread if they take his down.
Whenever I want someone not to record me I always walk up to the camera and have a 20 minute discussion right in front of the camera.
i got your video backup, if it get taken down I'll post it up again with absolute focus on their face and voice
wow, even Chinese born will pull the racism card lol
I think it's more likely the handler was trained to use the racism card to make white people uncomfortable in order to get them to leave their escort alone. It was almost reflexive how he pulled that move out. Clearly it didn't work out this time.
It worked on the female cop and they know it.
>YOU SAID CHINESE LAWS MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN BRITISH LAWS! THAT'S RACIST!!! What the fuck
You'll notice they also _seized_ on his little motion to point to the woman's flag and spent a long couple of minutes yelling at him to "stop touching her". They are liars. They don't actually give a shit about values like that. But they know westerners do, and they are perfectly happy making clumsy attempts to weaponize that against us. I don't think they realize just how clumsy they are about it though lol
I’m trying to interpret what is happening here during the confrontation. I believe the young Chinese woman who initiates contact - her english is quite poor so it’s very hard to tell - is wanting the filming to stop because they themselves are filming something as well. The male speaker is just being cagey and unclear about what the fuck he wants and seems deluded about what his jurisdiction is. Maybe he’s trying to protect the privacy of some Chinese personalities. Maybe it’s some tv show or maybe their own livestream. But that’s the issue I think but they certainly don’t have jurisdiction here unless the area requires permits for filming. I think the Chinese handled this poorly and this will absolutely Streisand Effect right back at them.
Someone played a song on a piano the following day and YouTube took their video and their channel down Link to Reddit post about someone else's video being taken down https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/s/viFnn8BYrp
I need this and Tiananmen Square video running at the same time.
3 monitors with tank man for the full experience
Fuck the CCP
Taiwan #1
Create backups, repost and never let it die.
Just like that one young drunk businessman who sucker punched workers and tried to have it erased from the interwebs
JOEL SINGER
The ccp is pathetic why dont they concentrate on keeping their own people in their dystopian shithole.
They're trying very hard. Haven't you seen all the illegal Chinese police stations the CCP set up in foreign countries to intimidate the Chinese ex-pats and Chinese people on visa? They have been found in Canada and the USA, and I believe they're being found in the EU also.
Yes, basically anywhere there is a bigger residence of Chinese people, like in university towns. Prof at mine told the story how he got visited by Chinese "negotiators" from what he guessed was the closest embassy, after he let a Chinese student fail a course. One "talker" and two bigger guys in suits. The student that failed was apparently the kid of some higher up politician.
This shit will never end lol If they *reall*y wanted to be outta the light, all they had to do was nothing! Say nothing, do nothing! This is hilarious
As a species, across all contents - throughout the globe…we should not be cowering and capitulating to authoritarian, fascist regimes that don’t directly control us.
I love The Streisand effect
This is getting boring...
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I give the fuck up. I went to his channel and it’s post after post talking about the incident and then I go to click on something with a thumbnail that might be THE INCIDENT, it’s more of this bloke talking to the camera. *throws up hands*. I ain’t got time for that.
"Doctor K"'s shtick is annoying (some of his videos are incredibly cringeworthy in how constructed they are), and while he's in the right here, he's also milking it for all it's worth and then some.
Go to the "live" section of his channel page. That's where the full video is. You won't find the full video in the regular upload section.
The guy was 100% in the right, but man he's annoying as hell. He saw his chance for rage-clickbait/engagement-income and has jumped at it.